Just a short one today, I have a bigger post coming tomorrow (hopefully), but this is just a brilliant highlight of current events from Always win when you're singing. It's all about the Today program and an interview with George Osbourne. Check it out.

So the Labour party is continuing to devolve in to chaos. Rather than accept this and sort it out once and for all, Gordon and the senior ministers in the party are actively pushing to continue turmoil and heighten the disillusionment. Hanging on the power by less and less of a grip, people are trying to save the administration with vacuous statements such as...

I hope people will stop distracting us from the task in hand, which is to respond to the real problems people are facing in our constituencies up and down the country. - Phil Hope

I happen to agree, this isn't the right time. Labour should be carving a new way forward, knuckling down to combat the threat of the Tories taking power in a way that the Lib Dem's are currently doing so well in my opinion. But can they really be expected to do that while they have a leadership that has brought the party to their lowest standing in decades?

Well, that's to assume the mighty were in fact mighty at all. Only 4 or 5 months ago Frank Field was leading the charge to hold the government accountable over the whole sorry affair of abolishing the 10p tax rate and making a fairly good name for himself, even if he did ultimately back out of keeping to his convictions. Unfortunately it may be less the case of standing up for the needy and instead simply standing up for the intrinsically working class at the expense of all other reason. Simply put, perhaps he managed to strike it right on the liberal front with one argument, but that doesn't make him a liberally minded person...as today's news shows.

Compass seem to feel they are gaining momentum in their campaign for a windfall tax on energy companies, after asking a bunch of turkey's to vote for Christmas they strangely got the answer they wanted...an amazing way to spend the donations given to them on this issue. However as of today the parallels can now be drawn between compass and the government in which both bodies are happy to take money from those that think it's going to go towards something meaningful, but actually will only be used to prop up measures to serve personal and selfish gains.

Brown announced a couple of weeks ago that withdrawal of military could start properly in 2009, though makes it clear he is not setting a timetable. No doubt this is more because Labour have made such a fuss about setting a timetable that they can't be seen to say they've now got one. But is this all just based on what his military chief's on the ground say, or is it perhaps lead by a similar announcement at the same time by Obama that 2010 would be the year for withdrawal of US troops if he gets the top job?

We are being treated over at Liberal Conspiracy with extracts of speeched MPs are making to people like the Fabian society. Well, treated may be a little too much of an over-exaggeration given both of the speeches so far have been utter crap in their own ways.

Just as the government has a moral duty to tackle poverty and exclusion, so it also has a duty to address obesity. But this is not a licence to hector and lecture people on how they should spend their lives - not least because that approach simply won’t work.

As with David Lammy before him, and Camerons vacuous speech in Glasgow, Alan Johnson doesn't actually say anything. So, for his benefit should he or one of his aides be listening (fat chance...teehee), here is some advice for him.

Hat tip to UK Liberty over his highlighting of the case of a rejected appeal by a suspected terrorist to be allowed to study AS level human biology and chemistry. It seems as though our government is finally getting around to closing the abhorrent loop hole in our education system that allows young adults the ability to become terrorists.

Expect these subjects to be strictly off curriculum by 2010 along with P.E (encourages too much physical contact, something proven to be important in all knife crime), English (teaches you to say things that might offend another person) and Electronics/Computer science (for the obvious connections to easy routes to terrorism).

I'm seeing a surprising number (and by surprising I mean more than one, and more than just devout Labour supporters) of people supporting what are absolutely obscene benefit reform proposals, proposals we have just about zero chance of stopping unfortunately. Take, for example, supposedly Liberal Anders Hanson who thinks that no harm can come of it...

But regardless of your circumstances, I think everyone can do some form of voluntary community service whilst being unemployed. It keeps you in the habit of getting up and going to work (even if it is only once or twice a week that you do it) and it helps put something back in whilst you receive your benefit. This shouldn’t be seen as a punishment as the Government seem to be making it. It should simply be a way of contributing.

And what happens when that person refuses to "contribute"? They get no benefits, that's cool right?

Not a pun on Gordon Brown's affliction, but instead the current state of politics which means that political parties simply cannot afford to be different to each other. From Cameron fearing the new Lib Dem tax policy so being forced to admit that his "tax cut" agenda isn't set in stone at all, to Brown aping the Tory policies on forced labour for benefits, and all of this after the Lib Dems craftily stole the main points of Labours transport policy.

Of course while I think the Lib Dem policy is hypocritical garbage, and the news of Cameron willing to raise taxes is like saying the sky is blue, the Labour party never fail to surprise me in how far they're willing to go to become the nasty party, and to completely abandon the kind of liberal thinking that changed the face of this country over a decade ago.

A year ago statistics were published about child substance abuse, or more realistically put...drinking habits. This February just gone Jacqui Smith attempted to use those statistics to justify hounding kids off of the street and further taking away the rights of youths that were (previously) acting completely lawfully, cementing the idea of Labour as a nanny-state with Smith as it's queen.

Some things however didn't make sense, as I uncovered in the statistics. Painting children as alcoholics for having simply ever tried alcohol even if they only did it once was the order of the day, and indeed it seemed a large emphasis was going on to kids drinking in the streets when a large percentage of them actually also drank in their parents home.

Now it is the time of the Telegraph to completely and utterly butcher the actual message of this years statistics, causing potentially one of the most idiotic statements I've ever heard courtesy of Norman Lamb

These are shocking figures, reflecting a culture where binge-drinking is truly out of control.

I call bullshit on this statement, read on to find out why.